When comparing Business Calendar vs DigiCal Calendar, the Slant community recommends Business Calendar for most people. In the question“What are the best calendar apps for Android?”Business Calendar is ranked 3rd while DigiCal Calendar is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Business Calendar is:

Business Calendar offers configurable widgets in many sizes for displaying Days, Weeks, Months or Agenda views on a user's home screen.

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Free ad supported version available

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Smooth zoomable user interface

Business Calendar has a user interface that supports scrolling and pinch zooming.

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Search function

Business Calendar has a search function that allows searching the calendar for dates and events.

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Integrates with Google Maps

Users who input locations can use Google Maps from an event to find the directions and location.

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Move Calendar events from one Calendar to another

The only app that has the ability to move an event to a different calendar if it was accidentally created in the wrong calendar. This app is an essential addition to any device and for anyone with multiple calendar accounts.

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Events can be created using the share menu

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Can manipulate with multiple events at a time

The app allows selecting multiple events and move or delete them together.

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Provides a lot of information

DigiCal has day, week, week agenda, agenda, month, text month, list and year views. In addition to events and event information, all views include weather information, some views attach other views to it to provide context.

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Works with Google Calendar and Exchange

DigiCal allows for Google Calendar integration as well as Exchange, making for an easy to use app for businessmen as well as regular users.

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Free, ad-supported version available

There's a free ad-supported version of DigiCal as well as this paid unlock key version that costs $4.95 that removes ads as well as adds more features.

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Actionable notifications

Notifications can be snoozed and they also provide shortcuts for maps and navigation.

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6 homescreen calendar widgets

DigiCal has 6 polished widgets, one for each view, available both for homescreen. Each widget has 9 themes (5 free, 4 paid) to choose from and allows some customization.

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Google Now integration

Google Now integration provides directions and traffic information.

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Light and dark themes

All views and widgets support light and dark themes.

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Easy to add locations in calendar event

The built-in location map is very handy for looking up a location. You can zoom in and out and pinch to pinpoint a location in the interactive map.

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Schedule an event in a different start and end time zone

The calendar app allows you to schedule an event with a local and foreign time zone. Ideal for intercontinental flights.

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Events can be color-coded with 30 colors

DigiCal supports the 11 Google Calendar colors and 19 additional colors. Using the extra colors allows for the user to easily see different events scheduled on the calendar without having to read the titles of the events.

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Each widget can be connected to a separate calendar

DigiCal has the ability to create multiple widgets with each one displaying a chosen calendar. It allows for a widget on screen for work events, another widget for family activities, and a third for favorite sport team's schedules.

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Available in 27 languages

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Adjustable calendar view

It's easy to adjust the calendar view on screen, so it perfectly matches personal preferences. This refers to both size and looks and feel, because you can adjust colors, transparency, lettertype and lettertype size.

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Good customer support

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Easily keep track of holidays, (live) sports, tv, finance events

Premium calendar subscriptions available for holiday, sports event, TV shows, public company events and lifestyle.

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Weather forecast with optional premium subscription USD/EUR 1.50

Once a location is provided the application will display a 3 day weather forecast in either imperial or metric units.

A premium weather subscription will expand the forecast to 15 days, add graphs and ability to set multiple weather locations.

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Events can be copied

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Smart image matching

Based on the title event keywords such as locations, activities, an illustration or a photograph will show up.

Cons

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Poor visual design

The design of the app looks a bit dated, something out of the early 2000's. While this does not impede the usefulness of the application, it still is a sore point when compared to some of the other popular calendar apps available on Android.

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Widgets don't show week numbers correctly on some devices

Widgets on certain devices have been showing week number incorrectly for more than 2 years. The issue hasn't been addressed and there is no sign that it will be.

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